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You thought you had it all working, didn't you? And then you find out that your process you thought was running and collecting data hasn't reported anything for two hours. Or maybe it's something on the desktop -- your browser has frozen and isn't responding. Or suddenly everything's gotten really slow and you're not sure why. And this happens every few days, and you're tired of it.

The Selenium project has some very useful tools for testing your web applications, including an excellent Firefox extension. In this tutorial we get started with Selenium IDE and RC…

Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman has revealed.

"Canadian copyright law promises to dominate discussion in Ottawa over the coming weeks as hearings on Bill C-32, the controversial copyright bill, are set to begin within a few days."

Two days have now passed since Novell announced the high-level terms of its proposed sale, and so far the press has not been able to prize any additional details out of the parties involved.  But if you know how to read between the lines, there's a lot more information there for the taking.

One of the major concepts of creating checks is to remember that all plugins with Nagios will require three elements to be configured. There must be a host definition, a service definition and a command definition. Think of it as a triangle each time you want to use a plugin.

Beginners are mostly afraid of command prompt. Whenever they see a command prompt, they immediately say “its very difficult”. But it’s not true. The Command prompt is as friendly as GUI (Graphical User Interface), provided if you use it with proper procedure. Most people use GUI tools to search for files. They don’t realize that they can use command line tools to search for them as well! GNU ‘find’ is such like a tool which can not only search files but can even copy, move or delete these files on the fly.

In my first article that is posted at 29.10.2010 “Installing Ubuntu 10.10 on a Windows 7 System (Dual booting) with Radeon X300/X550/X1050 SERIES Graphics Card”. I got most of email in that most of the people are asked me to give step by step Installation method for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 in dual booting. So I am trying to give you to installation method for both Operating Systems. I hope it will help to you for easy installation for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 in Dual booting method.

Among the most rapidly evolving niches in the Linux enterprise market is integration with Microsoft Active Directory. We last visited this area back in July 2010, but a lot has changed since then, with new partnerships announced and new software released. Here are some of the highlights of these developments, with a focus on their relationship to the latest Ubuntu release, 10.10. Take a look.

We have previously came up with 8 ways to clean up your Ubuntu machine, but 2ClickUpdate manages to reduce all the steps to just a single click. If you are looking for a quick and easy way to update, maintain and clean up your *buntu machine, you have just found it. By itself, the update manager in Ubuntu has done a really good job in performing regular check with the repository and prompts you when there are update available. What it doesn’t do is to remove junk files and clean up your system. This is where 2ClickUpdate comes in. In addition to the regular system update, 2ClickUpdate also removes junk files, cleans used space and optimizes RAM memory.

For those with some extra time this holiday week in the United States, perhaps you want to try out the ZFS file-system on Linux? As was said this week when publishing ZFS benchmarks on Linux using the native kernel module developed by LLNL/KQ Infotech, the public release of this kernel module wasn't going to happen until the first week of January. Fortunately, we have been successful in overwhelming KQ Infotech with lots of interested users, so they have decided to go ahead and make the current beta ZFS Linux module available to the general public.

The Mozilla Project developers have announced the release of the first alpha for version 3.3 of Thunderbird, code named "Miramar". According to Mozilla Messaging Product Manager Rafael Ebron, Miramar Alpha 1 is aimed at "testers, extension developers, and other friends who are curious to follow the development of the next release of Thunderbird".

According to Ostatic, Mark Shuttleworth, said that Ubuntu will likely be moving from its current six-month release schedule to daily updates which would make Ubuntu a rolling-release Linux distribution.

The next big thing in consumer computing is the cloud-based operating system. The most anticipated of these is Google's Chrome OS, a Linux-based OS meant to be ideal for netbooks and tablet-like devices.

Attachmate essentially acquires Novell’s businesses while a Microsoft-led consortium purchases certain Novell intellectual property assets. But Novell's sale raises as many questions as it answers. In fact, here are 11 key questions about the deal.

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 10.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

For those that checked in on the state of my thumb, thanks for your concern. If you missed my last column, I gave my thumb a good smashing just before SC10. I managed to navigate the show and New Orleans without any further thumb related issues. The show was a big success breaking last years attendance record of 11,000 people. As always, I have plenty to write about and will be doling out my reports over the next month. And, if you don’t read about it the week after SC, it does not mean the news is less important. There are only so many words, as it were.

When Novell announced that it had agreed to be acquired by Attachmate, someone remarked that they felt a chill passing through the Internet. While the company doesn’t get a great deal of mindshare these days, it was critical to the development of the enterprise that we know today. It was Novell that made networking popular and open to every platform. It was Novell that developed the concept of directory services. And it was Novell that brought us the idea of readily available, reliable network servers long before Microsoft or anyone else was a significant player.

Novell will honour all contractual obligations with its Australian customers and forge ahead with product development following the signing of a definitive merger agreement with Attachmate, according to Novell CEO, Ron Hovesepian. - In a letter to customers, the chief executive wrote that the merger, valued at $US2.2 billion, would in no way affect the company's support and maintenance. "We place tremendous value on the relationships we've cultivated with our customers and I can assure you that providing you with the innovative products, solutions and support you've come to rely on remains a top priority," the letter reads.

The announcement that Novell has agreed to sell itself to Attachmate for $2.2 billion does absolutely nothing to remove the huge question mark hanging over the future of Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Novell's open source Linux OS. Annoyingly for SLES customers, it actually raises as many questions as it answers. Novell put itself up for sale eight months ago following a takeover offer from hedge find Elliott Associates. Since then, long-suffering SLES customers have had to put up with uncertainty and doubt about the future of the server OS. Many of them must be wishing they'd made life simpler by picking Red Hat as their Linux supplier when they made their original purchasing decision. After all, no-one ever got sacked for not choosing Novell.